Final month, NBC revealed that manufacturing and filming of The Kelly Clarkson Present can be shifting from Los Angeles to New York Metropolis.
Whereas mum was the phrase on how the present’s host and Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Clarkson felt in regards to the cross-country transfer, followers suspected there needed to be some private reasoning behind the large change.
The “Since U Been Gone” singer lastly gave a bit extra perception into why she determined to alter her present’s manufacturing location throughout a current interview with Nancy O’Dell on TalkShopLive.
Clarkson mentioned she had an emotional dialog along with her crew again at first of the 12 months about her need to relocate the profitable daytime discuss present to NYC. She advised her crew that she both wanted to maneuver out of L.A. or the present wanted to cease for good.
“I’ve constructed such an incredible group of individuals. Clearly, we’ve been very profitable and I really like all people I work with and we have now such nice relationships,” she mentioned.
“So I talked to them as a result of I used to be like, ‘Guys, I would like you to know what’s occurring. It’s both I’m not going to have the ability to proceed with the present or I acquired to go East Coast.’”
Clarkson defined that in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic she felt “remoted” and distanced from her household.
“That’s not good for anybody and my household’s east coast,” she mentioned. “They’re North Carolina-based, so it was a kind of issues the place I simply needed to, you already know, additionally there was lots of private issues happening, too, the place I really feel like our household, me and my children actually wanted a recent begin and I simply couldn’t get it right here [in Los Angeles].”
Just some months into the pandemic, Clarkson filed for divorce from now ex-husband Brandon Blackstock after nearly seven years of marriage. The pair share custody of their two youngsters, daughter River Rose, 8, and son Remington, 7.
As for the brains behind the large transfer, Clarkson admits that was “one hundred pc [her] concept,” including that she’s had “such an incredible expertise with all these individuals and these relationships and it type of sucks to uproot it and transfer it.”
“I used to be like, ‘Y’all I really like doing this present. I actually do.’ I didn’t even know I’d, however I used to be like, ‘I gotta make a change for me and my household,’” she mentioned.
“I used to be like, ‘So any likelihood we will possibly do that, I do know we will’t do that from my ranch, so any likelihood we will do it in New York, which is at the very least nearer to my household. ‘Trigger they’re like an hour flight away, in order that was actually the primary cause,” she added.
Clarkson additionally added that the transfer had extra perks than simply being nearer to household, including that she has some new tasks within the works that might solely work on the east coast.
“I by no means thought I’d get an opportunity to do something (for Broadway),” she mentioned, including that she is “writing one thing for Broadway.”
“I don’t like performing in motion pictures and TV, however I do love stage stuff,” she mentioned.
Earlier than Clarkson turns into a New York transplant, she’ll headline a 10-night Las Vegas residency known as “Chemistry: An Intimate Night with Kelly Clarkson” that can coincide along with her upcoming album of the identical title. Clarkson says the album is about “the arc of a complete relationship.”
Although there isn’t any premiere date for the subsequent season of the present, the collection was renewed by 2025.
